We are pleased to announce that the 31st Conference on Spanish in the United States and the 16th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages will be held on February 25–27, 2027, at the Casa de Palmas Hotel in McAllen, Texas. It is hosted by The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. https://sites.google.com/view/sius2027/home Our conference theme, Vivir en Nepantla: Identity, Language, and the In-Between, draws on the Nahuatl concept of nepantla, often understood as a state of

We would like to cordially invite you to participate in a symposium on diversity in early multilingualism: https://t.uzh.ch/1Xl. We are now accepting applications to participate in the event. Participation is free of charge. When? 06-07 October 2026 Where? University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Many children worldwide grow up learning and using two or more languages. The experiences of multilingual children vary greatly. Therefore, it is impossible to treat multilingual children as a

This is a panel that will be part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference, It is organized by Jef Verschueren (Univ of Antwerp), Michael Meeuwis (Univ of Ghent), Jan-Ola Östman (Univ of Helsinki), Rui Zhang (Dalian Univ of Technology) Abstract: As a realm of publicly accessible discourse and as an arena for struggles over meaning, the public sphere (cf. Habermas 1989) has been undergoing drastic technologically driven changes during the past couple of decades. These changes include

The University of Parma's doctoral conference "Grammars of Sexuality: Forms of Saying, Narrating, Performing" (10-11 December 2026) explores sexuality as a culturally constructed "grammar", a system of rules that can be imposed, broken, or reinvented across discourse, literature, and performance. It's organised into three sections: Linguistics, focusing on how language, discourse, and embodied communication construct sexual meaning; Literature, examining how sexuality functions narratively acros

The panel seeks to advance our understanding of the nature of information that is ‘taken for granted’ in an utterance. Linguistic phenomena related to such information, most prominently presuppositions and conventional implicatures, received different analyses, e.g. as projective or not-at-issue content. Current debates center around the questions (i) whether a single analysis can capture all characteristics of this heterogenous set of phenomena; (ii) how they connect to information-structural d

The historical relation between African languages and general phonology has been a mutually beneficial one: African languages have contributed to the development of phonology in quite central ways, and developments in phonological theory have in turn improved our understanding of the many fascinating complexities of African phonological systems. This conference brings together 13 specialists of African linguistics and phonology to discuss the many contributions of African languages to the fie

African languages are still underrepresented in linguistic research; as a result there are almost no corpora. One way to quickly and efficiently build a corpus that allows for the investigation of a specific research question is to create one on the basis of storyboards. Storyboards are rudimentary picture stories that speakers can retell. The design of the storyboards can be used to specifically elicit certain linguistic constructions. In this way, natural language data can be obtained that

The Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) is an international conference on any aspect of theoretical or descriptive linguistics. Invited speakers this year are Aaron Broadwell - University of Florida Hannah Sande - University of California, Berkeley WECOL 2026 will be held VIRTUALLY on Zoom, November 14-15, based at California State University, Fresno. Presentations are published in the WECOL Proceedings online: https://wecol.weebly.com/ Submission Instructions: All submissions

11th Conference of the International Association of Literary Semantics: “Hybrid Semantics: Media, Modes, and Meaning” University of Warsaw, 17th – 19th June 2027 (social and cultural events possible on 16th & 20th June, to be confirmed) Proposal deadline: 15 January 2027 The 2027 edition of the IALS conference invites contributions that explore hybrid semantics – the ways meaning is produced, transformed, and negotiated when literary texts intersect with multiple media, languages, tec

DDHUM26 — 4th International Conference Data & Digital Humanities Data, Science and Digital Communication: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 26–27 November 2026 - University of Minho, Braga, Portugal The 4th edition of the International Conference Data & Digital Humanities (DDHUM26) is framed by the theme “Data, Science and Digital Communication: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, exploring contemporary intersections between data practices, scientific knowledge production, and digital communicati

“Ibero-Romance Studies in the Contemporary World: Scientific Paradigm and Current Challenges” is a conference focusing on issues of Ibero-Romance linguistics, literature, culture, translation, and language teaching methodology. The conference brings together researchers from leading Russian and international academic institutions: Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Science

We invite submissions for the Great Middle Sea Conference, to be held at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia from May 6 to May 7 2027. The conference will focus on formal approaches to phenomena characteristic of the languages and dialects spoken in the Eastern Mediterranean, such as varieties of Arabic spoken in the region, Hebrew, the languages spoken in Cyprus, Malta, and non-semitic heritage languages such as Ladino and others. Contributions on understudied minority languages spoken in the r

Call for Panel Contributions IPrA 2027 Panel: Support and Assistance: Linguistic and Communicative Practices Surrounding Aging and Assistance Organizers: Haruka Sakai (Hiroshima University), Mao Chida (Chiba University/Hiroshima University) This panel discusses the linguistic and communicative practices surrounding aging and assistance, or care, as processes of social interaction. Social support and physical assistance are provided in ways that orient to the autonomy and cognitive and physi

We are pleased to announce that the 7th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe conference (PaPE 2027) will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 14 to June 17, 2027. PaPE is an interdisciplinary forum for research on all areas of phonetics and phonology, with a special focus on the relationship between the two. It promotes discussion of phonetics and/or phonology and their related areas, from multiple perspectives such as experimental phonetics, laboratory phonology, formal phonology, neurolinguisti

Culture is an essential component of language learning and our languages are a vitally important part of who we are. The setting of our second international symposium brings to mind the interconnections between freedom, language, and culture throughout history and today. As you consider some of the suggested stands, or create your own, we invite you to think about how these themes (culture, longevity, liberation) relate to freedom movements throughout the development of societies and to the ways

Title: Explaining the emergence of pragmatic markers: Cooptation, pragmaticalization, constructionalization? Panel organizers: Wiltrud Mihatsch (Tübingen), Inga Hennecke (Tübingen), Gunther Kaltenböck (Graz), Stefan Schneider (Graz) Pragmatic markers, a heterogeneous class of extra-clausal expressions including discourse markers, stance adverbials, interjections, and formulae of social exchange, occupy a peculiar position in linguistic analysis. While their functional properties are relative

This panel focuses on the study of word searches as interactional phenomena that affect the progressivity of turns, sequences, and activities. In contrast to cognitive approaches, which treat troubles in turn production, such as speech perturbations or hesitations, primarily as rooted in individual, cognitive processes (e.g. Levelt 1983; Goodglass et al. 1989), conversation-analytic research has investigated word searches as a particular type of repair (e.g. Schegloff et al. 1977) and emphasised

The current communication pattern worldwide is marked by two key features: digital connectivity and civic unrest. Communities co-produce meaning through nuanced, often contested communicative acts that range across generational, cultural, and ideological boundaries. This panel proposes that intercommunity interaction is not merely an exchange of information but a dynamic space of pragmatic negotiation, in which utterances are determined by context, implicature, and social intent (Levinson, 2023)

We are pleased to invite submissions for the panel outlined below. Pragmatics is defined by the International Pragmatics Association—now celebrating its 20th conference—as the “the science of language use, in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a functional (i.e. cognitive, social, and cultural) perspective on language and communication” (IPrA webpage, our italics). This reflects the scholarly consensus that pragmatics is a study of communication because “communication is what language is a

Topics: AI, Robotics, Technology; Anthropological Linguistics and Ethnography; Conversation Analysis/EMCA; Interactional Pragmatics Abstract: Assistants based on large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable uptake as a new medium advertised as conversational partners. They may be marketed as companions (Malfacini, 2025) for therapy (Scholich et al., 2025), used for programming, research, and writing (Haase et al., 2026), and a variety of other purposes. On the surface, such assistant